Jamsetji Tata Award conferred on Arun Bharat Ram
New Delhi: Arun Bharat Ram, chairman, SRF, has been conferred the Jamsetji Tata Award for 2006 by the Indian Society for Quality (ISQ) in recognition of his achievement in successfully managing business through holistic quality and his contribution to creation of quality culture in the society, SRF said in a statement.

The Jamsetji Tata Award is given every year by ISQ to recognise industry leaders who have made a significant contribution to society by leading an organisation with focus on holistic quality management.

Earlier recipients of the award include TVS Motors CMD Venu Srinivasan and Tata Sons director J J Irani, the statement said.
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Kamath promoted as GM, Corporation Bank
Mangalore: M. Damodar Kamath, till now on deputation as chief vigilance officer in Indian Bank, has been promoted as general manager, Corporation Bank, with effect from January 3.

Kamath had been on deputation since January 2006.
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Cisco to move 20 pc of top executives to India
New Delhi: Cisco Systems, the US networking giant, is planning to move at least 20 per cent of its top executives to India.

Cisco Systems' chief globalisation officer Win Elfrink, said that in the next 2-3 years, every function in the company would have at least 20 per cent of its top executives in India.

The majority of the company's primary business functions including sales, finance, HR, marketing, engineering and customer support will all be represented in India, through its Globalization Center, as well as in the US, Elfrink said.

Cisco is also confident of achieving its target to triple its workforce to 6,000 in India in the next three years.

Cisco is setting up a new research and development campus in Bangalore, for which the company has allocated $50 million and which is expected to be completed by June.
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Margaret Chan takes charge at WHO
Geneva: Margaret Chan has taken charge at the World Health Organization. On taking over she promptly renewed the agency's warning that the world must keep up its guard against bird flu.
Chan said there had been a lull in bird flu infections in recent months, but that cases had begun picking up again in the last few weeks.

She said the world was gearing up to improve surveillance of the disease and rapid response to any outbreaks.

She also said more was needed to be done against older diseases, such as malaria.

WHO also intends to press on with its campaign to eradicate polio, even though it missed its target of destroying the disease in the world by 2005 and had to set a new goal of the end of 2007, Chan said.
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